Editing Edward the Black Prince (section)

===Cheshire expedition===
In 1353 some disturbances seem to have broken out in [[Cheshire]], for the Prince as [[Earl of Chester]] marched with Henry of Grosmont, now [[Duke of Lancaster]], to the neighbourhood of [[Chester]] to protect the justices, who were holding an assize there. The men of the earldom offered to pay him a heavy fine to bring the assize to an end, but when they thought they had arranged matters the justices opened an inquisition of [[trailbaston]], took a large sum of money from them, and seized many houses and much land into the prince's, their earl's, hands. On his return from Chester the prince is said to have passed by the [[Abbey of Dieulacres]] in Staffordshire, to have seen a fine church which his great-grandfather, [[Edward I of England|Edward I]], had built there, and to have granted five hundred marks, a tenth of the sum he had taken from his earldom, towards its completion; the abbey was almost certainly not Dieulacres but [[Vale Royal Abbey|Vale Royal]].<ref>{{harvnb|Hunt|1889|p=93}} cites Knighton, c. 2606; ''Monasticon'', v. 626, 704; {{harvnb|Barnes|1688|p=468}}.</ref>